THE ROAD TO ORLEANS

At 1/4 from the South to the South East. At 1/3
from the South to the South East. At 1/4 from
the South to the South East. At 1/5 from the
South to the South East. Between the South West
and South, to the East bearing to the South; from
the South towards the East 1/8; thence to the West,
between the South and South West; at the South.

[Footnote: The meaning is obscure; a more important
passage referring to France is to be found under No.
744]

On the Germans (1080. 1081).

1080.

The way in which the Germans closing up together cross
and interweave their broad leather shields against
the enemy, stooping down and putting one of the ends
on the ground while they hold the rest in their hand.
[Footnote: Above the text is a sketch of a few
lines crossing each other and the words de ponderibus.
The meaning of the passage is obscure.]

1081.

The Germans are wont to annoy a garrison with the
smoke of feathers, sulphur and realgar, and they make
this smoke last 7 or 8 hours. Likewise the husks
of wheat make a great and lasting smoke; and also
dry dung; but this must be mixed with olive husks,
that is olives pressed for oil and from which the
oil has been extracted. [Footnote: There is with
this passage a sketch of a round tower shrouded in
smoke.]

The Danube.

1082.

That the valleys were formerly in great part covered
by lakes the soil of which always forms the banks
of rivers,—­and by seas, which afterwards,
by the persistent wearing of the rivers, cut through
the mountains and the wandering courses of the rivers
carried away the other plains enclosed by the mountains;
and the cutting away of the mountains is evident from
the strata in the rocks, which correspond in their
sections as made by the courses of the rivers [Footnote
4: Emus, the Balkan; Dardania,
now Servia.], The Haemus mountains which go along
Thrace and Dardania and join the Sardonius mountains
which, going on to the westward change their name from
Sardus to Rebi, as they come near Dalmatia; then turning
to the West cross Illyria, now called Sclavonia, changing